So it's Tuesday...
I'm not packed (big surprise) I've not done any laundry (no surprise) I've not cleaned my apartment (really no big surprise) and I leave in 3 days... but my mother in law will be here in two... she's is the uber clean freak... me not so much...
So tonight will be the flight of the bumble bee clean up of the apartment collecting the laundry that needs to be done... packing the kids bags... hopefully tomorrow will be the trek down to moms after swimming lessons to do laundry, get Gambit to his soccer game and hopefully taking the gay duo to mom's so that she can watch them for me while I'm gone... who knows... called yesterday and left a message on her machine... 24 hrs later... still waiting for a call back.... *nods*
hopefully as long as everything goes according to my plans... the van'll be packed on Thursday night, the kids will be leaving on Friday after their swimming lessons and I'll be picking Raistlan at 4pm and leaving...
we'll be going a different route then mapquest suggested... we'll be going from St Catharines to Windsor over the Ambassador Bridge into Detroit grabbing the I75 and going south for a good 14 hours... hopefully meet up with Red and continuing down to Valdosta... staying there for a week (providing they don't get sick of us before that) then we're contemplating making the trek to South Carolina and maybe going home via the I95... but we'll see how it goes... if we do that we'd probably hit almost every state on the east coast... *laughing* I said almost... sheesh... :P
Anyway I gotta run to the store... need something for dinner...
Tuesday, August 22, 2006
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Monday, August 14, 2006
We Love Tragedy.. Admit It We Do
So I was reading Bone's blog the other day and he was talking about the WTC movie thats coming out with Nicholas Cage in it. It got me to thinking...
We as a society thrive on watching tragedy... it's quite sick when ya think about it.
Look at how many war movies we have based on real wars... The two World Wars, Desert Storm, Korean War, Vietnam War....and and and... Or major disaster movies such as Titanic... where real lives were lost.
Now some people are up in arms saying 'it's too soon' others want to see it because they want to know what happened. People like hearing about other peoples stories, sure why not, isn't that one of the reasons we read each others blogs. We read each others stories, we laugh or cry or sympathize with each other about our lives, we give everyone a small peep into what our lives are like. Thats why they're so popular, we like the feeling of being connected. Some say this movie is a way for everyone to connect to what happened. Some say they're exploiting the situation. Some feel that all profits from this movie should go back to the families of those who died, others think it should go back to the city of New York itself. Others think that it just should never have been made.
I gotta tell ya I'm a little all over the map with this one. I'm going to relate it to a story that I am familiar with that had the same affect just it was on a community not a whole country. It was a story that broke while I was in highschool. Two teenage girls had been kidnapped and murdered, the amount of press it got was huge because even those they were the only two girls (that we knew of at the time) it really hit home. Well because it was in our home. I live in a region where not a lot of crap like that happens so when it does it's huge.
When the story broke the news was filled with it, over and over and over again all we saw was school pictures of the two girls and a wedding photo of the couple that was charged with the crimes.
There's a publication ban in affect. Thats what caused the biggest upset. Let me say that again just so you can process it for a moment.
The biggest problem the community had was that there was a publication ban put into affect during the trial and is still in affect now.
Yes we were pissed that the crime happened, we were sickened by the whole thing. However, the biggest problem and the thing that caused the most controversy was the fact that we weren't allowed to know exactly what happened to those two girls (later during the trial it became three girls because they ended up starting the whole thing off with her sister). People believed that we had a right to know what happened to those girls. They demanded to know.
They didn't think of the families, didn't think of the pain they were going thru because they knew what happened, they got to hear all the gory details of what happened to their beautiful daughters. They were in fact the ones who applied to the publication ban on there. They didn't want the public to know, because it was so horrible. They were tortured and sodomized and shaved and raped and much more. The parents wanted to save the public from hearing that and wanted to protect the images of their daughters. Kudos to them.
It was 13 years ago that this happened, hollywood loved it. They picked up the story and ran with it. Made a movie about it named Karla. Every Canadian that I've spoken to about it will not go and see this movie. As a matter of fact Cineplex Odeon refused to show it. Why?
Because for us it's still too soon.
For the people that are affected by such tragedy and trauma of situations. It will always be too soon.
Will I ever watch the movie? Maybe some day, but even 13 years later it's still too soon.
Will New York ever be ready to watch WTC possibly not. However they may want to, not to relive it, but to celebrate the fact that they got kicked in the balls and stood back up with the help of their countrymen. Will D.C ever be ready to watch it, *shrug* maybe not.
I will tell you that I did watch the show that was made for tv about the plane that didn't make it to where it was going Flight *** (I don't remember) Mind you I bawled my way thru it, but it showed that when united people can do anything, include stop terrorists.
Will I go watch WTC, maybe I'm still split on the idea. Because even tho I'm not an American and I'm 8 hours away from where it all took place. I'm human and it affected me and shook me to the core of my being. I cried for the people that died and the ones that were left not knowing.
I cry at any tragedy against human life. People think I'm odd because when I watch movies like Saving Private Ryan or Full Metal Jacket or Black Hawk Down I cry. Yeah they are macho shoot 'em up war movies. But I cry because they are based an actual events and it hurts me to know that people have gone thru such horrendous ordeals.
Will I watch it, probably, someday. I will buy into the sick and twisted thing that is human nature and I will watch it. However, I won't go to the theatre to watch it ;) would hate to cry infront of a whole theatre of people.
I think that I'll watch it because when ya think about it. Everyone needs to come together again and just hug each other and look each other in the eye and say 'we made it thru another day'
It's events such as 9/11 that prove that you need to live life to the fullest everyday.
Now go check out Bone's blog so I can go wipe my eyes.
We as a society thrive on watching tragedy... it's quite sick when ya think about it.
Look at how many war movies we have based on real wars... The two World Wars, Desert Storm, Korean War, Vietnam War....and and and... Or major disaster movies such as Titanic... where real lives were lost.
Now some people are up in arms saying 'it's too soon' others want to see it because they want to know what happened. People like hearing about other peoples stories, sure why not, isn't that one of the reasons we read each others blogs. We read each others stories, we laugh or cry or sympathize with each other about our lives, we give everyone a small peep into what our lives are like. Thats why they're so popular, we like the feeling of being connected. Some say this movie is a way for everyone to connect to what happened. Some say they're exploiting the situation. Some feel that all profits from this movie should go back to the families of those who died, others think it should go back to the city of New York itself. Others think that it just should never have been made.
I gotta tell ya I'm a little all over the map with this one. I'm going to relate it to a story that I am familiar with that had the same affect just it was on a community not a whole country. It was a story that broke while I was in highschool. Two teenage girls had been kidnapped and murdered, the amount of press it got was huge because even those they were the only two girls (that we knew of at the time) it really hit home. Well because it was in our home. I live in a region where not a lot of crap like that happens so when it does it's huge.
When the story broke the news was filled with it, over and over and over again all we saw was school pictures of the two girls and a wedding photo of the couple that was charged with the crimes.
There's a publication ban in affect. Thats what caused the biggest upset. Let me say that again just so you can process it for a moment.
The biggest problem the community had was that there was a publication ban put into affect during the trial and is still in affect now.
Yes we were pissed that the crime happened, we were sickened by the whole thing. However, the biggest problem and the thing that caused the most controversy was the fact that we weren't allowed to know exactly what happened to those two girls (later during the trial it became three girls because they ended up starting the whole thing off with her sister). People believed that we had a right to know what happened to those girls. They demanded to know.
They didn't think of the families, didn't think of the pain they were going thru because they knew what happened, they got to hear all the gory details of what happened to their beautiful daughters. They were in fact the ones who applied to the publication ban on there. They didn't want the public to know, because it was so horrible. They were tortured and sodomized and shaved and raped and much more. The parents wanted to save the public from hearing that and wanted to protect the images of their daughters. Kudos to them.
It was 13 years ago that this happened, hollywood loved it. They picked up the story and ran with it. Made a movie about it named Karla. Every Canadian that I've spoken to about it will not go and see this movie. As a matter of fact Cineplex Odeon refused to show it. Why?
Because for us it's still too soon.
For the people that are affected by such tragedy and trauma of situations. It will always be too soon.
Will I ever watch the movie? Maybe some day, but even 13 years later it's still too soon.
Will New York ever be ready to watch WTC possibly not. However they may want to, not to relive it, but to celebrate the fact that they got kicked in the balls and stood back up with the help of their countrymen. Will D.C ever be ready to watch it, *shrug* maybe not.
I will tell you that I did watch the show that was made for tv about the plane that didn't make it to where it was going Flight *** (I don't remember) Mind you I bawled my way thru it, but it showed that when united people can do anything, include stop terrorists.
Will I go watch WTC, maybe I'm still split on the idea. Because even tho I'm not an American and I'm 8 hours away from where it all took place. I'm human and it affected me and shook me to the core of my being. I cried for the people that died and the ones that were left not knowing.
I cry at any tragedy against human life. People think I'm odd because when I watch movies like Saving Private Ryan or Full Metal Jacket or Black Hawk Down I cry. Yeah they are macho shoot 'em up war movies. But I cry because they are based an actual events and it hurts me to know that people have gone thru such horrendous ordeals.
Will I watch it, probably, someday. I will buy into the sick and twisted thing that is human nature and I will watch it. However, I won't go to the theatre to watch it ;) would hate to cry infront of a whole theatre of people.
I think that I'll watch it because when ya think about it. Everyone needs to come together again and just hug each other and look each other in the eye and say 'we made it thru another day'
It's events such as 9/11 that prove that you need to live life to the fullest everyday.
Now go check out Bone's blog so I can go wipe my eyes.
Saturday, August 12, 2006
Fine! I'll Post Damnit!
So I've been catching a whole lotta flack this week because I haven't posted anything here...
There's really nothing to say really... So I'll start with whatever comes to my head...
Moonie and Chris were in Niagara Falls for their honeymoon... so since I live about 15 minutes from there they invited us out for dinner.. we went to the Rainforest Cafe... had some good eats and some good treats... it was awesome, thank you so much Moonie and Chris, we had a great time with you guys and your view from your room... was fucking awesome... ;) hope ya got some pictures...
We were invited back the next day with the midgets to go swimming... had a great time in the pool... won't bore you with the details of what happened after swimming.. just know Moon and Chris that I am SOOOOo sorry for his actions... he did apologize later and was able to have the present you got for him.. and they loved them.. thank you so much. I love you guys it was great to see you again.
We're going on vacation.. yes you heard that correctly Raistlan and I are going on vacation... wanna know where... Georgia... sure why not it's the middle of August during the hottest summer on record here so we figured we'd head south :D bloody brilliant eh ;) yeah well we want too so there...
we'll be there for a week at the end of August... yay!!
enh.. I don't feel like posting anything else... sorry thats all ya get folks
There's really nothing to say really... So I'll start with whatever comes to my head...
Moonie and Chris were in Niagara Falls for their honeymoon... so since I live about 15 minutes from there they invited us out for dinner.. we went to the Rainforest Cafe... had some good eats and some good treats... it was awesome, thank you so much Moonie and Chris, we had a great time with you guys and your view from your room... was fucking awesome... ;) hope ya got some pictures...
We were invited back the next day with the midgets to go swimming... had a great time in the pool... won't bore you with the details of what happened after swimming.. just know Moon and Chris that I am SOOOOo sorry for his actions... he did apologize later and was able to have the present you got for him.. and they loved them.. thank you so much. I love you guys it was great to see you again.
We're going on vacation.. yes you heard that correctly Raistlan and I are going on vacation... wanna know where... Georgia... sure why not it's the middle of August during the hottest summer on record here so we figured we'd head south :D bloody brilliant eh ;) yeah well we want too so there...
we'll be there for a week at the end of August... yay!!
enh.. I don't feel like posting anything else... sorry thats all ya get folks
Wednesday, August 02, 2006
Blog Worthy
there are moments in life now that when they happen I sit back and look at the situation and say.. now that was blog worthy...
sometimes it's good things... sometimes its not so good things...
and today I have a good thing and a not so good thing to tell y'all about...
Let's start with the good thing...
Went to see Jewlz yesterday and she worked her magic on me and did my hair for me... yay!!
7.5 hours at the salon and it was worth it... just for the fact that I'm much cooler (temperature wise :P)
There's me with my new doo :D See I can be cute sometimes :D
ok so that was the good news....
on to the not so good blog worthy news...
last night after I went and picked up Raistlan from work... he was trying to make sure that the A/C was in the window correctly because it had started leaking inside the apartment... well his hands and himself were getting wet from handling it and I think you can see where this is going... yes he accidently dropped the A/C out the window and it landed with a loud crash on the neighbours front porch... Raistlan had the cord in his hand... *sigh*
So I am sitting here right at this moment... completely naked with a fan blowing on me... sweating my ass off...
I don't blame him.. not like he blames him.. it was an accident after all... not like he threw it out the window... I just don't really wanna hear what my mom is gonna have to say after all this... she bought it for us last year when it went on sale...
Oh yeah and did I mention that when the landlady got the roof done last year they didn't do it right and theres no vents in the roof and I'm on the top floor of the building... the a/c in the bedroom is working double time and a half...poor wittle guy can barely keep my bedroom cool...
So alas... I am here and I am Hot. ;) but not as hot as I could be if my hair wasn't done :P
Everyone help me out here and tell Raistlan not to beat himself up about it... ;) Cause we all loves him...
sometimes it's good things... sometimes its not so good things...
and today I have a good thing and a not so good thing to tell y'all about...
Let's start with the good thing...
Went to see Jewlz yesterday and she worked her magic on me and did my hair for me... yay!!
7.5 hours at the salon and it was worth it... just for the fact that I'm much cooler (temperature wise :P)
There's me with my new doo :D See I can be cute sometimes :Dok so that was the good news....
on to the not so good blog worthy news...
last night after I went and picked up Raistlan from work... he was trying to make sure that the A/C was in the window correctly because it had started leaking inside the apartment... well his hands and himself were getting wet from handling it and I think you can see where this is going... yes he accidently dropped the A/C out the window and it landed with a loud crash on the neighbours front porch... Raistlan had the cord in his hand... *sigh*
So I am sitting here right at this moment... completely naked with a fan blowing on me... sweating my ass off...
I don't blame him.. not like he blames him.. it was an accident after all... not like he threw it out the window... I just don't really wanna hear what my mom is gonna have to say after all this... she bought it for us last year when it went on sale...
Oh yeah and did I mention that when the landlady got the roof done last year they didn't do it right and theres no vents in the roof and I'm on the top floor of the building... the a/c in the bedroom is working double time and a half...poor wittle guy can barely keep my bedroom cool...
So alas... I am here and I am Hot. ;) but not as hot as I could be if my hair wasn't done :P
Everyone help me out here and tell Raistlan not to beat himself up about it... ;) Cause we all loves him...
